The dogs — and chickens — of war

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• The CIA attempted to use a surgically modified cat to spy on the Kremlin in the 1960s. Acoustic Kitty was wired up with transmitting and control devices in its body and an antenna in its tail. On its first live trial, the cat was run over by a taxi During the Second World War, Britain and the US had plans to deploy bats wearing tiny satchels holding incendiary devices. The American plan was aborted after the bats attacked the wrong target in a practice run and set fire to a military airfield in New Mexico A Soviet attempt to use